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Author : Henry Neville Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Extinct Monsters written by Henry Neville Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana E. Marsh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800732015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Extinct Monsters to Deep Time written by Diana E. Marsh and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century. Describing participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time, the author provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public. From the introduction: In exhibit projects, the tension plays out between curatorial staff—academic, research, or scientific staff charged with content—and exhibitions, public engagement, or educational staff—which I broadly group together as “audience advocates” charged with translating content for a broader public. I have heard Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the NMNH, say many times that if you look at dinosaur halls at different museums across the country, you can see whether the curators or the exhibits staff has “won.” At the American Museum of Natural History in New York, it was the curators. The hall is stark white and organized by phylogeny—or the evolutionary relationships of species—with simple, albeit long, text panels. At the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Johnson will tell you, it was the “exhibits people.” The hall is story driven and chronologically organized, full of big graphic prints, bold fonts, immersive and interactive spaces, and touchscreens. At the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where Johnson had previously been vice president and chief curator, “we actually fought to a draw.” That, he says, is the best outcome; a win on either side skews the final product too extremely in one direction or the other. This creative tension, when based on mutual respect, is often what makes good exhibitions.
Author : Karen A. Rader
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607983X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Life on Display written by Karen A. Rader and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education. Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades. A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers.
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345734
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Giants of the Lost World written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel called The Lost World with the exciting premise that dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts still ruled in South America. Little did Conan Doyle know, there were terrifying monsters in South America--they just happened to be extinct. In fact, South America has an incredible history as a land where many strange creatures evolved and died out. In his book Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America, Donald R. Prothero uncovers the real science and history behind this fascinating story. The largest animal ever discovered was the huge sauropod dinosaur Argentinosaurus, which was about 130 feet long and weighed up to 100 tons. The carnivorous predator Giganotosaurus weighed in at more than 8 tons and measured more than 47 feet long, dwarfing the T. rex in comparison. Gigantic anacondas broke reptile records; possums evolved into huge saber-toothed predators; and ground sloths grew larger than elephants in this strange, unknown land. Prothero presents the scientific details about each of these prehistoric beasts, provides a picture of the ancient landscapes they once roamed, and includes the stories of the individuals who first discovered their fossils for a captivating account of a lost world that is stranger than fiction.
Author : Janet Riehecky
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781429601177
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Sabertooth Cat written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simple text and illustrations describe sabertooth cats, how they lived, and how they became extinct"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Denise Hight
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738581729
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Fruita written by Denise Hight and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Pabor arrived in Western Colorado before the advent of irrigation, and the land presented a barren and desolate sight. But he saw something entirely different. "In the spring of 1884, lying on the bare floor of a log cabin on the site of what is now the town of Fruita, I watched the moonbeams play on the Roan Cliffs and across Pinon Mesa," Pabor wrote. "The silence of centuries seemed resting upon the plain. . . . But visions of the possibilities of the future swept before me. I saw homes founded, I saw family circles gathered together. I saw vineyards and orchards, and rose-embowered cottages in which love and happiness and contentment abode. . . . I heard the merry voices of children yet to be born. I heard the singing of harvesters bringing in the sheaves of golden grain." Pabor soon turned vision into reality and founded the town of Fruita.
Author : John Whitfield
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346986
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Lost Animals written by John Whitfield and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the incredible animals that have disappeared due to competition, mass extinctions, hunting, and human activity. Lost Animals brings back to life some of the most charismatic creatures to inhabit the planet. It captures the imagination with more than 200 incredible photographs, artworks of fossils, and scientific drawings of charming creatures like dodos, paraceratherium (the largest land mammal), spinosaurus (the biggest carnivorous dinosaur), placeoderm fishes (the sharks of their day), and more! Lost Animals is a captivating documentation of evolution and extinction. Each chapter focuses on a specific time in Earth's history, from the Cambrian explosion (the most intense surge of evolution the world has ever experienced) to present times, with profiles of the key species that lived then. From long extinct animals to Lazarus species--animals that were thought to be extinct before being rediscovered--this book takes readers on a journey through Earth's natural history, highlighting the world's biggest animal losses and its moments of conservational hope.
Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948405744
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Creatures of Another Age written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of fossils of extinct species like the pterodactyl, iguanodon, and woolly mammoth during the nineteenth century caused an upheaval in the scientific world and challenged long-held religious beliefs about the creation and history of the world. But it also sparked the imaginations of countless writers, and it wasn't long before these prehistoric monsters began to appear in stories of adventure, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as in more surprising forms, such as a ballad sung by an ichthyosaurus or a mock Elizabethan verse drama with a cast of primordial creatures. This volume collects some of the most fascinating Victorian writing on dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters, including stories, poems, drama, and essays, and features contributions by well known names like Arthur Conan Doyle, George Sand, and Jack London, along with many other once-popular but now-forgotten writers, and includes a new introduction by Richard Fallon.
Author : Richard Freeman
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642507512
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book In Search of Real Monsters written by Richard Freeman and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From animals long believed extinct to monsters we thought never existed —a cryptozoologist’s true accounts of his worldwide hunt for legendary creatures. Cryptozoologist Richard Freeman has spent years researching and tracking down mythical monsters. In this book, he recounts more riveting monster hunt stories from his globetrotting adventures: through the dense forests of Sumatra on the trail of a mystery ape known as the orang-pendek, to Tasmania in search of the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf. Every corner of Earth has its own monster —even in the traceless Gobi Desert, where he searches for the Mongolian death worm, a creature so feared by the nomads that it can send a whole community into a panic. Freeman also provides excellent advice on how to carry out your own cryptozoological expeditions from scratch—with information on: what equipment to take inoculations how to choose which mythical animals to hunt planning ahead the importance of getting good local guides, and more
Author : Richard Fallon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108996167
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature written by Richard Fallon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries—including Brontosaurus and Triceratops—proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and imaginative writing. The rise of the dinosaurs thus accompanied fascinating transatlantic controversies about scientific authority.
Author : Johnny Marciano
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617759635
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book How Did Humans Go Extinct? written by Johnny Marciano and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s learn about the most mystifying species to ever walk the Earth! Plib is like every other Nøørfbløøk kid on Earth, except for one thing. He loves humans--those horrible, terrifying monsters who dominated the planet ten million years ago. Only one thing about the humans bothers Plib. What happened to them all? Did they turn the planet into an uninhabitable wasteland? Or did they turn on each other? Or did the humans die out because of something else they did--or didn’t--do? Find the answer in How Did Humans Go Extinct?
Author : Howard Zimmerman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689841132
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Dinosaurs! written by Howard Zimmerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the age after the dinosaurs where huge beasts, reptiles, and flying creatures terrorized the earth.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975764817
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Tasmanian Tiger written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ted Oakes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780563488156
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Monsters We Met written by Ted Oakes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homo sapiens began to explore the worldbeyond Africa only 100,000 years ago.These people were not primitive cavemen,but as intelligent as ourselves. Thousands ofyears before Cook or Columbus, theypioneered a route from Africa throughEurasia to Australia, northern Europe, theAmericas, and ultimately the shores ofremote islands such as New Zealand. Whatour ancestors found was not the planet thatwe know today, but instead a prehistoricworld ruled by giant animals, 'monsters' thathad risen from the ashes of the dinosaurs.Monsters We Met tells the greatest untoldstory of our species: how humansdiscovered all the continents and met Earth'sextraordinary megafauna - enormous lizards,horse-sized bears, terrible cats, colossalbirds and lumbering plant-eaters.In the first review of its kind, and drawing onthe latest research from science, archaeologyand anthropology, this book sets out toanswer some vital questions. Did we battlewith megafauna for control of Earth, or didthey disappear for other reasons? Why doesone animal, Homo sapiens dominate ourworld today, and at what cost? And whatis the message from prehistory for us now?
Author : Richard Fallon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108834000
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature written by Richard Fallon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920
Author : Ben Garrod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838935436
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Megalodon written by Ben Garrod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV scientist Prof Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nature makes top level science fun. Here are the superstars of the story of life, from the super-weird to the super-ferocious. Usually a species has 10 million years or so of evolving, eating, chasing, playing, maybe doing homework, or even going to the moon before it goes extinct. Megalodon, the super-predator, had the most powerful bite force ever measured! Terrorising the oceans, it hunted with stealth and skill, but even Megalodon died out, along with 50 percent of marine mammals, 2.5 million years ago. Find out why! 'An accessible, beautifully illustrated book that covers millions of years of natural history by focusing on one particularly deadly predator... I am intrigued to read the other books in the series' LoveReading Collect all eight books about animals we have lost in mass extinctions caused by asteroids or mega-volcanoes, clashing continents and climate change. Past brought to full-colour life by palaeoartist Gabriel Ugueto
Author : Matthew Rake
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
ISBN 13 : 1512436151
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Predators written by Matthew Rake and published by Hungry Tomato ®. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that dinosaurs weren't the only prehistoric beasts on Earth? Even before the time when dinosaurs lived, there were many other incredible creatures, and some were even bigger and more terrifying than T. rex. Entelodonts had strong jaws designed to crush bones. Quetzalcoatlus was the largest ever flying creature—about the size of a fighter jet! And Dimetrodons were the first animals to have notched teeth for slicing through flesh. What would happen if these beasts came back to life? Imagine these prehistoric predators facing off against tigers, bears, and wolves—and learn all about the terrifying creatures of the past!
